dissolute

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISSOLUTE, adjective [Latin] 1. Loose in behavior and morals; given to vice and dissipation; wanton; lewd; luxurious; debauched; not under the restraints of law; as a dissolute man; dissolute company. 2. Vicious; wanton; devoted to pleasure and dissipation; as a dissolute life.
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